Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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JdlE LEDGER. Thurlow S. Carter, EDITOR ANI) MANAGER. \r: .Wri'UPAY, .IAN. 7, ISiO. .. tu The annual report of the State | Sunerinteadent of Kducation shows ^To.SM* ehildrcu attending j the puhlie seliools. Of these l'Jc,D>2 are white. 1 .">0,7*7 araeolortd, ^ making 2.~>, 1Sr? more Marks than i whites at seliool. iL07(> white! . and 2,D*>t'> eolorad teachers ara ( employed. Their salaries airgre- j # i?r?U*te !f?'..,,?r{,r>S!L7l>; paid out /> Ivt??r rent $3,350.83; for repairs * $12,537.30; furniture, $5,405.- ^ 33; fuel and incidental* $7,340,- tJ. 5<>; maps and charts $20,650. 5,1' tl libraries $757.63; sites $2,228.TT 01; buildings $30,048.66; other I jj purposes $3,237.44; salaries of () State,and county Superintendents, ^ expenses county boards, etc., $23,500. Total cost for the publie schools for the year $754,741.- jt 50. I It i* stated that the annual re- n port of the State Hoard of control \ s< will advocate the doing away nith ] Ci the county board*, which cost ttie ?I State about $12,000. a year, anil n arc really of not much service, and j ( will probably iccommutid that the e Senator and Representatives from u each county constitute an adrisory t board for the purpose of actions h 111 it) It 111 n -.1 ii ii; < ivbwli i ?lov llwi <1 I I - 1" I"' - ? "? * Siftto Board, and upon which in- <> formation could in no other way * he obtained. j li 4 - |o ()rders have been issued from h the war department for the mustor tl out of twelve regiments, two inde- ti pendent companies and three heavy "* batteries of artillery, approaching fi 1 ti,000 or more men. The South a Caroline heavy battery atSullivans t island ; Fourth Missouri at (ircon- I ville: Second Tennessee at Colunid l)i:i : and the Ninth Ohio at Sum-i merville are included in the troops ? to he mustered out. I r?i r Hon. TO MeAlhaney of St. P (iaorge's. State Senator of Dor- <> olie?ter county, di?d, of paralysis, " at his home last Saturday morn- <> injf. He was married about two d months ago to Miss Blanche ? Stewart, daughter of Capt. W 11 h Stewart of Koek Hill. tl S V II Small pox is still spreading in tl 1 ho vicinity of Mayesrille. The Governor is informed that there ti arc now several hundred eases, tl lie has boon appealed to for aid n but finds the appropriation has n lieon exhaiuted and that ho can <? do nothing until the legislature tl meets and makes an sppropria 1 ion for this purpose. y -?s s? Ci Itailro.ad Commissioner (larris assumed the duties of his position .. Tuoaduv. The fertilizer rate f (piostion will eorno before the board thi-> week. The fir?t ticket from Columhia to Ilalnna yvj*s fol<l Monday for J1( *i??v;.. ()| - V I *( Privates Cole and JI ijjlitoner of L the First Sonta Carolina hare en- .1 listed in the Trcnty-lirst infantry, a now at Manila, and loft Thursday k to join their command. 1 in l?* jdi An UneerfAln Dlofur. 'J lien* if* IIO diMOftM mnW" ii Mfuriotn ? ** ? ? ^ III ll? nature than dynpepaia '"tfnirin its say that irl the syinpt ins of no tvo ?y 'ixree. It is j mi therefore ..tost <Iiftieti 11 to umke a correct diagnosis. No matter how cverc jr under what di^euisodyspepsinaitaoks yon, Browns' Iron Bitters will ?-nr?* it. Invnlnahle in all ft licenses of the stomach, hiood an<l nerves, drowns' Iron Bitters in sold hy all dealers. Are Vou Wrikl Weakness manifests itself in the loss of atnhitioti mid aching bond. The hlood in ' watery ; the tissue* are wastintr?the door in ne being opened for disease. A l>ott!e of Browns' j Iron Hitters taken in time will restore your sl strength, soothe your nerves, make your blood rieh and red. Do yon more good K' than an ex pensi ve special course of medicine. Drowns'Iron Hitters is sold by all dealers. 1 For The Ledger. 1 formation Wanted About the Robinson Family. * | Mr. Kditor :?1 engaged iu riling up genealogical history of fferent families. Having begun ! write the gceealogical history j ; the Robinson family who live; this county, I cannot complete ie chain of that geneological his-j >ry for the want of some impor-1 int facts connected with that famv, I thought perhaps by writing short article for the Ledger that eradventure I might gain those icts. About 1 7T?4 or T?.r> the herokec Indians became eery 'oublcsome in this section, now nown as Catawba county, and mrdered and scalped a family of win [)iuuuri>, SPilld'H WHO ere then living on the water!* of lenry Fork River near that brave Id pioneer, Henry Wicdner's owso, he being the first explorer f this county. Then, in a few ay* afterwards, he gathered up i* family and traditionary histor always said that he wont to ,ancaster county, 8. C., in the eighborhood where some Robinnn family lived. There he beanie an intimate friend of one ames Robinson, and when Wisher returned to his home in North Carolina that he came with 1 im to xplore this wild wilderaess then nder the control and dominion of he Cherokee Indians, and when e ?aw the country ho hctame so elighted with it and the fertility f the soil, that he entered a large cope of land on the South Fork liver about six miles southwest f Newton, a place known as the tocky Ford on said ii\t*r. He lien moved to this section of conn ry about the year 17(5<>, perhaps little earlier or later, with his umily which consisted of his wife nd thice sons, who were children lien, one named David, on? John Iarvey, one Jesse, and perhaps a aughter or two. Now, I want to know is there uy person living in the county of <anca*ter who, hy his own knowllije or traditionary history, cat) oint out the plantation or farm r spot where he whs horn, and diat the given name of his father r mother was, and what her mai en name was, and whether they* rere of German descent or not, nt as to this I am inclined to liiuk they were German. If I am <>i mistaken the older one *poke lie German Ittnguagu. Tliesa may ht? very hard (pies ions to answer hut nevertheless here may he some traces left for eommenceiuent. To complete iv < hain of geaealogical history f this noted family I would like lie hest in the world to yet them, low readers of The Ledger put ...Ir.-U 4 .. _ ..L I ' iiiuma in TTur* and 1I1111K bout tliw matter. Perhaps you in xi.l mo sonir in the cnmpinon of this chain and by so doin^ on nill certainly confer a j^rcat ivor. If found, you cun write a ic?-c in Tlio Ledger, or address 10 at Voder, N. (J., or my son, M Voder at Van VVyck, S. ('. A few more items aoout this filed family before I close. The Meet son David represented Liniln county in the North Carolina eiMslntnre for 171>5 and 1 ? ohn Harvey was thrown ayainst tree in running a horse race and illed. .Jesse, tho youngest son. arvied one of Menry \Viedn?r'? mighter*. 11(5 also represented incoln count? in the Legislator# i 1801, I think. I could give lany more important point# in )i# family's history but I will >rl>?ar nt present. (jr. M. Yoder. I Yoder, N. C. Mon'l Tobarro Spit an.I Smoke Tour l.lfe Attn,. To quit toharco easily anil forever, lie mag itlc. full of life, nerve and viiror, take No Tovc. the wonder worker, Uiat makes weak men rong. All d ringlet*, We or SI. Cure gua' ined Booklet ami scruple free. Address wrllng Remedy C* "'Meago or New Yorl* t*r Subscribe to The Ledger' DAM A (IKS FOR LYNCHING. QJ Claim Heard Before the State Supreme Court Yesterday. De In the supreme court yesterday a case of considerable interest was argued on appeal from Orange- .?( burg county. The case is impor- ? tant from the fact that it has reference to tli? constitutional pro- 1 ! vision that the heirs and administrators of a party lynched may sue the county in which the lynching occured. ep About a year and a half ago a w? wcero named Brown was lynched m! I # * ' scl } in Oraegeburg county, the charge ev against him heiug that tie had l?> burned several barns of farmers m I i rei ; the county. ,j, His administrator, Isaac Brown, th i brought suit against the county for $2,000 damages. Judge AUK ^ rich presided at the court Red he t), ; decided that the constitutional pr provision applied only to prisoners who were taken from the custody n< I of legal officers aid then lynched, but did not apply to those persons t)r lynched who had not been in the 7 HI custody of officers. n The attorneys for the adminis- I 1 trator then appealed, and the j rt* |(|uention was argued liefore the l [court this morning. ' in Messrs Raysor and Summers and Mr .1 B McLaughlin icpre- . sented the negro. ; t|, Mr II II Bruneon, C (* Dant/- fu tier and NVillian C Wolfe rcprchp sented the county.?The State, nth inst. Knocked Down and Robbed on the Highway. in Last Saturday night while a gi young man mimed Crenshaw, wh:> di i had been visiting ia Rock Hill. (,i was returning to his homo ia Van C'l Wyck in Lancaster counfj. ho was set upon by unknown pVrties j^ land robbed. He was crossing & I the long, high trestle near Rod: dey's, and when a little more d, than half way over, he met two R, i negro men, who puahad him otF, b< itho fal' to the ground, about b? 1 twenty feet, rendering him tin- di conscious, and while in this con- ci dition liie pockets were rifled and 14 .00 taken from bis pockett)0(lk. wllicll tliPMwn iiiA. ' ? r j on the ground. Mr. Cranslniw pj liti11ks hu remained in an uncon- |,| acinus condition for fully two rtl j hours. When he finally recovered s|, hit aensct, lie found that ha was p, ; rery much hruiscd and almost too w tore to walk, hut h# hohhlad to n the store of Mr. Walter Patton ] and from there to the home of -r j Mr. Sep Masaey, whei* he re- pr maiiiad until he felt aide to con- r# I , . . : tinuo hia journay. q\ 1 ho persons who rohhed Mr. Crenshaw are not known, hut ,}j strong effort should he made to all apprehend them, ns they are Xn dangerous characters to ho nt ui large.?Koek Hill Ileiald. i ,|i TI1 K SECOND S.\ I HS. I th i m 1 ... J ..it. / ' - I' t ? ' - ' *' mnuii v uniiimi i i in cm I >ep:irls * from Savannah for (,'uba. I lit Savannah, Jan. 3.?The I'nitedj i # # i States troopship Roumanian, with * ' I if tho Second South Carolina regiment, and the Mobile, with the! ^ Fourth and Ninth Illinois repi- j ' mrnti, sailed from Savannah this, j morning. There only remains ^ here the Third Georgia regiment, the Maine volunteer artillery and ^ six batteries of 1'nited States ar.... ni tillery. ----- ? T Miss Olive, daughter of Rear Admiral Sampson, was married 1 sa VV ednesdav afternoon to Henry * . if Harrison Scott, of Stn Fram-isoo, ^ in the Congregation^1 church at * gr Glenn Ridge, New Jersey. ?^? - ?. n ^ fcW Subscribeto Thk Ledger. pj MM GRIP'S DEADLY MARCH als Death and Destruction to Many. >ston, New York, Philadelphia, j Vushington, Louiavill?T#rrorlssed r?y the Awful Scourge. All the (ireat Centers of Population AfTecttd. The depressing efteets of tlie pre?*nt j idemie of (trip are uppnreot every?re. Te icheri, elerKs, l>mine?K men. ' echaiitcs laborers, street eai drivers. ) bool children, police otftoeis ami i I m (lie doctors all InrniMi victims ! the hun.I red* No reniwdy yet discovered can all ?w ' suits equal to I)r. Miles' Ftestora re Nervine. It quickly overcomes e excessive exhaustion, invigorates e appetite and n?smtR nature to row off the deadly microbe* trona e system. In times of epidemic like e present it should he taken hh u eveiitiveof disease 'Grip had lift, ii.e a physical wreck; eak, helpless and miserable. I c old j >t eat; could not sleep; could not j dn any stiength, and had nervous i ostratlon of t!ie worst bind* Our une physician could not help me 1 id I commenced using Dr. Miles' ervine. The (list night's sle-p that had ha l in Pair 111 tin lis came as the suit o* two ti st doses. When I had ken two bottles I fels better than I id be for* in years, and continued ?o ipn ve until I was entirely cured*" Ki.l W >"1>A itt?. Plymouth, Ills. All d-uggists vie autliori/. d to sell r. Miles' Nervine on u guarantee nit fits' brittle benefits or rummy Tended Me sure ami get l>r Miles' < rvine M eik'et on iieart and N> rves tit free Add res* r Mi'es' Mwd<cal Co, 10 khait. hid. A Tramp's Kloquent Lecture. A tramp avked for a free drink a saloon. The request was anted, and, when in the act of inking the proffered beverage, te of the young men present exaimed : Stop! Make us a speech. It jioor liquor that doesn't loosen man's tongue." The tramp hastily swallowed inn the drink, and as the rich plot* coursed through his blood r straightened himself and ttood ?for? them with a grace and gnity that all his rags and dirt mid not ohicuie. 'Gentlemen," he *aid, '! look might lit you and myself, and it iem? to me I look upon the eture of my lost manhood. This onted face was once ?n young id handsome m> yours. This latnhling figure on< walked oudly as yours, a mnn in the orld of men. I, too. once hail home and friends and position, had a wife as beautiful as sn tist'n (lienm, and I dropped the icciass pearl of hat honor and spect in the wine cup, and, leppntrn like, saw it disolve aid mired it down in the brimming ...Ma ? ? ? a an. i Dad children as sweet ul IotHv as tlie flowers of spring ul mtv them fade and <1 i? tder the blighting curse of a unken father. "I had n home where lore lit e flams upon the altai and , mistered before it, and I put , it the holy tire and darknass and isolation reigned in its stead. I id aspirations and ambit ions that Hied as high as the morniag ar asd broke an-' bruised tlioir 'tutiful wings, and at last ranglcd Oiom; that 1 might hear eir cries no more. Today 1 am husband without a wife, a father J ithout a child, a tramp with it* true to call his own, a man in horn arar? good impulse is dead. D(1 all >? ? >" 4 ? .. -..V .. ' 1 ' III tliU aelstrom of drink." The tramp censed speaking, lie glass full from his aerYeless lgers and shivered into n thound fragments on the floor. The ringing doors pushed open and int again, _ and when the little otip looked up the tramp was >ne. ? New Orleans Picayune. So morphine or plnaa In D*. Milaa' Pahs iu. Otnuc All Pw, "UMtMOdoM." I f / JCLECTKD INTO JAIL. Another Interesting Chapter in the St. Clair Bend Case. Kaunas City, Mo., Jan. 3. Another chapter in the celebrated St. j Clair county bond ?aso was closed today when Judge Philips of the j leitod States circuit court order ad the release from tho county j jail of Thomas Nevitt and Thomas j JdcGill, judges of the St. Clair county court, who hare been in contempt of the federal eourt since Juno last, when they refused to obey the order of the federal judges directing them to levy a tax on the property holders )f St. Clair county for the purpose of satisfying the repudiated bonds. The St. Clair county judges ceased to be in contempt of the federal court simply because their term of office had expired. The taxpayers of St. Clair county elected their successor* at the Horember election, nud the unices then chos en were to all purposes elected into jail, for they were solemnly pledged to resist the order of the federal court directing the levying of the tnx. The bond question is the one political issue in St. Clair county. The amount involved, including the principal and intor? for >25 years, is now over a million dollar*. The bonds were voted and issued in aid of a rail, road, and amounted to about $ 100,000. The promoters of the company secured the hot da. sold them in the east, and left the St. Clair people with no sign of a railroad. When the bonds fell due the taxpayers resisted payment, and, though the federal courts eventually decided in favor of the. bondholders, the St. Clair county people have not, during all the years of litigation, been disappointed in any of the county judges whom they have elected to resist the federal court*. llcuuty Im lllooil I>c?*p. Clean Mood mcana a clean skin. No >oauty without it. Cuacareta, Candy Cathartic clean your Mood and keep it clean, by tirring up the lazy liver and driving all im lurities from tlie l?odv. llcgin to-day to rnnish pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads, ami that sn kly bilious complexion by taking t a sen rets,?beauty for ten cents. All druggiol.% satisfaction guaranteed, ]Uc,25c,f>0e. Spartanburg Liquor to lie Paid For. Columbia, S. C., Jan. 4.?C Q Scruggs, of Spartanburg, dwmand m iir i'-nirii or fi,uuu wrrrtll Ot j liquor seized from him as an original package dealer. lie was indicted Imt the grand jury found no bill. Mr Willis recommended payment of the hill an the whisky had been used. The board agreed to pay the original cost of the liquor, about fbOO. Died Whistling. UulValo, N. Y., .Jan. 4. ? Char- ' les Meherger, 27 years of age, who tvnt found lying by the New York Central trm-ks last Friday ' with his skull fractured, is dead. On the evening of the day on which he received his injuries Meberger began to whistle, al . though he was wholly unconscious 1 and remained so to the last. Ilej whistled all sorts of tunes and without cessation for 95 hours. Kit KK 1*11.I.S Send your address to II. K. I ? I. i <? / ? /'i ' * ' ' itiicKit'ii iv v o., vaucago, ana get ii free sample box of Dr. King's New Life 1'ills. A trial will convince you of tlioir merits. These pills are easy in action and particularly effective in the cure of Constipation and Sick Headache. For Malaria and Liver troubles they have been proved invaluable. They are guaranteed to l>e perfectly free from every deleterious substance and to be purely vegetable. They do not weaken by their action, but by giving tone to the stomach and bowels greatly invigorato the system. Regular size 25c. j>er box. Sold by Crawford Hros Druggist. HE STEK'S MONTHLY fcTA'l E MENT. Movement Ahead of the Last Two Year# for December. New Orleans, .Ian. 3. ? Secretary Hester's Now Orleans cotton exchange statement issued today covers the monthly movement to Dec. 31. The movement from the first of September to December 31 shows receipts at all United States delivery ports 5,827,670 aga inst 5,550,278 last year and 4,958,890 year before last. 'ru - + m i me ukii amount 01 me crop brought into sight during the four months ending Dec. 31 ?* 7,725,496 against 7,290,533 last ye?r. Including ports and interior I towns left over from the previous season and the number of bales of I the current crop bought into night I during the four months the supply has been 7,993,062 against 7,413,087 last year and 6,730,741 the year before. BEATS THN KLONDIKE Mr. A. C. Thomas, Marysville, Tex., has found :i more valuable discovery than has yet been tnade J in the Klondike. For years he suffered untold agony from consumption. accompanied by hemI orrhages: and was absolutely , cured by I)r. King's New Discovery ibr Consumption, Coughs and Colds, lie declares that gold is of little value in comparison with this marvelous cure: would have it, even if it cost a hundred dollars a bottle. Asthma, Bronchitis and all throat and lung affections are positively cured by Dr. King's Few Discovery for Consumption. Trial bottles free at Crawford Bros' Drug Store. Regular size 50 cts. and $1.00. Guaranteed to cure or price refunded. To Executors, Administrators, Guardians and Trustees. YOU It ATTENTION IS HEKEhy colled to the 'act that it i* my only, under the law. to requite you to make leturus of your cli himI doinus ?- Execuinrs, AdniiuKiratora, UuardiaiiM or Trustees. These returns must tie toed with me dtirlug ttie months of January slid February. (JHAs I). JOKBt}, .1 IlilfV.t nf Pr/.l?a?o This Jan. 2. 1809~" CHAhLK ]) JOJMiS - A I'lORNKV A I' LA W L A NCASTIOIG S COflioo in tlio Court House. Will practice in all the Courts. Prompt attention will he given all business with which entrusted. ? Collections a specialty. JJT'ty*. U - ? >.? ? '.??r/> w.rqyj .-? /? syntw/.! tfc tBBSS TRESPASS NOTICE. ALL PKliSONS are hereby warned not to trespass upon my lands in Duford township, known as the Kundcrhurk tract, the $ Plyler tract and ttie home tract oy which I reside, either by fishing, hunting with dogs or without, either by ?lay or night, or in any other wry. The law will be enforced against any and all persons disregarding this notice. Geo. W. Plyler. Dec. 10, 1808. * lm. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OK I.ANCA8TFK, In tl e Court of PrnlwtH. By CIihh. I) Jones. Judge of Probata. wiiick has, It I. Hlnckmoii. lltm made suit to me, to grant him Lette.a of Administration on the estate of and effects of W. J. Blackmou, deceased. TIIKSK AUK TIIKItKFOKB to Cite and Admonish all and singular the kindred And creditors of the said W. J Blackinon, deceased, that ihey he and appear before me. in the Court of Pro bale, to he held at I.aucaster, C, H , on Janutry the 17th next, after put*lieation thereof,- at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, If any they have, why the said Administration ahould iio; be granted, (liven under my hand, thin 2nd day of January Anno Domini, lhfil). CHArt. D. JONEri, Judge of Probate.